Barringer Technologies Files Bacteria Detection Concept Patent Application.Business & High Tech Editors WARREN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 21, 2000 Barringer Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: BARR BARR Board on Agriculture and Renewable Resources (Washington, DC, USA) BARR Bureau of Aeronautics Resident Representative ); the world's leading developer and manufacturer of trace drug and explosive detection Explosive detection is a non-destructive inspection process to determine whether a container contains explosive material. Explosive detection is commonly used at airports, ports and for border control. equipment, today announced the filing of a patent application for its Pathogen Pathogen Any agent capable of causing disease. The term pathogen is usually restricted to living agents, which include viruses, rickettsia, bacteria, fungi, yeasts, protozoa, helminths, and certain insect larval stages. and Biological Warfare biological warfare, employment in war of microorganisms to injure or destroy people, animals, or crops; also called germ or bacteriological warfare. Limited attempts have been made in the past to spread disease among the enemy; e.g. detection concept. This filing describes a signal amplification process coupled with ion mobility spectrometry spectrometry /spec·trom·e·try/ (spek-trom´e-tre) determination of the wavelengths or frequencies of the lines in a spectrum. spec·trom·e·try n. detection (IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. ), that is expected to provide significant reduction or total elimination of incubation times in microbiological organism detection and identification, thus allowing for virtually instantaneous results. Stanley Binder binder: see combine. An earlier Microsoft Office workbook file that let users combine related documents from different Office applications. The documents could be viewed, saved, opened, e-mailed and printed as a group. , Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Barringer Technologies Inc., commented, "This invention will reaffirm re·af·firm tr.v. re·af·firmed, re·af·firm·ing, re·af·firms To affirm or assert again. re Barringer's technological superiority as the Company expands its capabilities into the pathogen and biological warfare market. We believe the significance of this invention will be recognized as the threat of biological and chemical warfare chemical warfare, employment in war of incendiaries, poison gases, and other chemical substances. Ancient armies attacking or defending fortified cities threw burning oil and fireballs. A primitive type of flamethrower was employed as early as the 5th cent. B.C. becomes more prevalent and analysis time becomes critical." The patent application and all rights to the invention have been assigned to the Company. Headquartered in Warren, New Jersey, Barringer Technologies Inc. is principally engaged in developing, manufacturing, and marketing of high technology products for drug and explosive detection and other security and industrial applications. The Sabre 2000(R) and the IONSCAN(R) are the Company's proprietary trace particle drug and explosive detection units. 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Other factors may be described from time to time in the Company's public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, news releases and other communications. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. The Company does not undertake any obligation to release publicly any revisions to these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. |
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